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Duty to Revolt

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Digital Activism and Society: Politics, Economy and Culture in Network Communication

The Digital Activism and Society: Politics, Economy and Culture in Network Communication series focuses on the political use of digital everyday-networked media by corporations, governments, international organisations (Digital Politics), as well as civil society actors, NGOs, activists, social movements and dissidents (Digital Activism) attempting to recruit, organise and fund their operations, through information communication technologies.

This series publishes books on theories and empirical case studies of digital politics and activism in the specific context of communication networks. Topics covered by this series include, but are not limited to

• the different theoretical and analytical approaches of political communication in digital networks;

• studies of sociopolitical media movements and activism (and ‘hacktivism’);

• transformations of older topics such as inequality, gender, class, power, identity and group belonging;

• strengths and vulnerabilities of social networks.

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Duty to Revolt:

Transnational and Commemorative Aspects of Revolution

Edited by

George Souvlis

University of Ioannina, Greece

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Athina Karatzogianni

University of Leicester, UK

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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First edition 2024

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Dedication

To Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion.

About the Contributors

Seamus Farrell holds a PhD from Dublin City University (DCU) on the topic of ‘A Political Economy of Radical Media’. In addition to research on radical media and politics, Seamus is interested in critical perspectives on Irish development, having worked on the Repast: Conflict in Europe Project.

Andromache Gazi is a Professor of Museology at the Department of Communication, Media and Culture, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens. Her research interests include the ideological manipulation of the Greek past in museums and beyond, museum history, the theory and practice of exhibitions, museum text, memory studies, oral history, public history and public archaeology. Publications include the edited volumes National Museums in Southern Europe. History and Perspectives, Athens 2012 (with Alexandra Bounia) and Oral History in Museums and Education, Athens 2015 (with Irene Nakou).

Theodoros Giannakis has studied painting, sculpture and new media at the Athens School of Fine Arts. He has graduated from the MFA programme in Digital Media Management at London Metropolitan University in London. Since 2017, he has been working on a doctoral thesis at the Department of Visual Arts of the Athens School of Fine Arts. Alongside his artistic and curatorial practices, he has acted as a visual artist, game designer and art director in independent video game productions, television and cinematographic productions.

Athina Karatzogianni is a scholar who specialises in critical theory, digital media and political communication. She is currently a Professor in Media and Communication at the University of Leicester. Karatzogianni has published extensively on a range of topics related to digital media and activism, including the relationship between social media and political change, the rise of digital populism, and the ethics of online communication. She is a leader in the field of digital media and activism, and her work has contributed significantly to the understanding of the relationship between technology, politics and social change. This bio was produced by Open AI's ChatGPT.

Niamh Kirk is a Lecturer in Data Journalism and Social Media and Course Director of MA in Journalism at the University of Limerick. Her research interests are at the intersection of digital media, regulation and sociopolitics.

Panos Kompatsiaris teaches cultural and media theory at HSE University in Moscow and is a research fellow in media sociology at IULM in Milan. He is the author of The Politics of Contemporary Art Biennials (2017) as well as of several articles on art, theory and cultural politics.

Tasos Kostopoulos holds a PhD in Modern History at the University of the Aegean. He is currently working in the Institute for Mediterranean Studies, as Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded programme MACAUTH. Screening Souls, Building Nations. Macedonia(s) as a Laboratory for Balkan-wide Authoritarianism. As journalist by profession for almost four decades, he has published seven books on history, all of them in Greek, and 38 scientific articles or book chapters in Greek, English or French. His interests evolve around the questions of nationalism as a sociopolitical project, social movements and conflicts, minority assimilation and ethnic cleansing, political violence and ‘deep state’ politics.

Robert Latham teaches in the Department of Politics at York University, Toronto. His recent publications include Organizing ‘Anti-Capitalist Internationalism in Contemporary and Historical Perspective’ (in Rethinking Marxism); Challenging the Right, Augmenting the Left: Recasting Leftist Imagination (co-edited); ‘Neoliberalism's Zeitgeist: The Untethered Disposition of Capitalism’, (in New Political Science); ‘Contemporary capitalism, uneven development, and the arc of anti-capitalism’ (in Global Discourse); and The Radical Left and Social Transformation: Strategies of Augmentation and Reorganization (co-edited).

Ilias Marmaras is a media artist born in Athens. He studied Plastic Arts, Urbanism and Philosophy at the university Paris VIII. He is a co-founder of the Media Arts collective Personal Cinema (http://personalcinema.org/). He works as documentary director, game designer and researcher.

Jacob Matthews is a Professor of Information and Communication Sciences at the Culture and Communication department of Paris VIII University. Former Director of the Cemti lab, founded by Armand Mattelart in 2000, he is now a researcher at the Labsic team of Sorbonne Paris Nord University. He has specialised for the last 15 years in the socio-economics of the web and culture industries. His research also covers the following fields: analysis of web discourses and practices, ideological production and leadership, star system and the industrialisation of culture and communication.

Alexander Darius Ornella is a Senior Lecturer in Religion at the University of Hull. In his research, he is interested in the complex relationship between religious language, iconography and practice and socio-cultural-political narratives. He recently published a paper on the practice of sport as political practice of remembrance and how the religious dimensions of such practice can foster or prevent political debate and political critique.

Bev Orton is a Lecturer at the University of Hull. She was the expert consultant on GlobalGrace https://www.globalgrace.net/working with sex workers in Cape Town, South Africa, Yaliwe Clarke and Sara Matchett, at the University of Cape Town and with the Sex Workers Advocacy and Education Task Force (SWEAT).

Eleftheria Papastefanaki teaches and works as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Crete. She received her BA in Philology from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and she completed her postgraduate and doctoral studies at the Department of Philosophy and Social Studies of the University of Crete. Her research interests focus on history of educational ideas (19th–20th), history of women's education, women's movement and political activities, history of socialism and communism (the movement of ideas) and social history of Greek civil war (1946–1949).

Christos Papathanasiou is PhD Student in History of Education at the University of Ioannina. His research interests focus on the depth analysis of the Greek school textbooks of primary Education. In particular, he has been engaged in the study of the school textbooks of the Regime of Ioannis Metaxas (1936–1940) and broadly into the period of Inter-war in Greece (1919–1940). He has also involved with the exhibition of the Hellenic Parliament ‘Ioannis Kapodistrias (1776–1831): his course in time’.

Stamatis Poulakidakos is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication and Digital Media, University of Western Macedonia (UOWM). He specialises in media monitoring, propaganda and quantitative content analysis. He has authored the book ‘Propaganda and Public Discourse. The presentation of the MoU by the Greek Media’ (Athens: DaVinci Books) and co-edited ‘Media events’ A critical contemporary approach (London: Palgrave-McMillan). Ηe has published papers on political communication/political marketing, propaganda, refugees/immigrants, social media and social movements.

Nikos Smyrnaios is a Professor at the University of Toulouse, France where he teaches theory, history, sociology and economics of the media and the internet. He has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters in English, French and Greek and has presented at international conferences on the political economy of communication, digital journalism and the political use of social media. He is the author of Internet Oligopoly: The Corporate Takeover of Our Digital World, 2018, Emerald.

Leandros Savvides (PhD Critical Management Studies, Leicester, 2019) is currently a special teaching staff at the Cyprus University of Technology, at the Department of Communication and Internet Studies. His primary research interests are theory of science and technology, cultural politics, the emergence of citizen science and civil society interventions in shaping technology and vice versa. His book ‘3D Printing Cultures, Politics and Hackerspaces’ (2021, Emerald Publishing Ltd) is an ethnographic study that examines the bourgeoning 3D printing culture (narratives, grassroots innovation, urban techno-politics) outside the professional lab in Hackerspaces, Makerspaces and Fab Labs.

Yiannis Skoulidas is a programmer and game developer with vast professional experience in computer software and hardware (since 1986), multimedia, audio, video, website and book production (since 1995) and 3D game development (since 2003). Notable projects include: RevAthens 1821 (revathens.transludic.net) 3D Mobile app. AthensVirtual (athensvirtual.gr) 3D Game Space. SmartHotelRoom (deplaced.gr/immersive-locality) Augmented Reality 3D Space. CARGONAUTS (cargonauts.net) for Western Sydney University. BANOPTIKON (banoptikon.mignetproject.eu) for the European research programme MIG@NET.

George Souvlis is an Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Ioannina, Greece, and a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Sociology at the University of Crete, Greece. He is the Co-director of the Seminar Series Politics of Liberation. He is editor of the book, Voices on the Left (Red Marks) and the co-editor of the volumes Back to the 30s? Crisis, Repetition and Transition in the 20th and 21st centuries (Palgrave) and Radical Journalism Resurgence, Reform, Reaction (Routledge) and of the special issue of Re-assessing the Metaxas Dictatorship (1936–1941) – Greek Fascism or Old-Style Authoritarianism published in the Journal of Fascism.

Yannis Stoyannidis is a historian. He teaches as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Archival, Library and Information Studies in the University of West Attica. He graduated from the University of Thessaly and the University of South Wales (UK). He has participated in research programs concerning social and modern history, industrial heritage and archives management. His publications discuss the management of cultural remnants and archives, modern history, urban heritage and social history of medicine.

Panos Tsimpoukis has a Masters Degree in Biology from the University of Ioannina Greece. He has worked as a scientific journalist for the Greek press for several years. Currently he is a PhD candidate in the University of Toulouse, France, where he studies social media debates and press coverage of controversies around technologies such as Artificial Intelligence.

Nikos Vafeas was born in Athens in 1970. He studied Sociology at Panteion University and then followed postgraduate studies in History at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. He received his PhD from the European University Institute of Florence in 1998 (Dissertation topic: ‘Pouvoir et conflits dans l’ Empire ottoman: La révolte de 1849–1850 dans la Principauté de Samos’). He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science of the University of Crete, where he teaches Historical and Political Sociology.

Rosa Vasilaki holds a PhD in History from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Bristol. She is the founder and co-coordinator of DISSENSUS-social research group which produced large-scale research on the Far Right, published in 2021 as ‘Mainstreaming the Far Right in Greece: Gender, Media, Armed Forces and the Church’ with the support of the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung – Greece Office. She is also the co-coordinator of the global seminar ‘Politics of Liberation’, also supported by the RLS.

Anastasia Veneti is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Media and Communication, Bournemouth University (UK). Her research lays at the intersection of media and politics, including political communication, digital political campaigning, media framing, protests and social movements, visual communication and photojournalism. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6449-9830.

Foteini Venieri is a museum studies researcher with a focus on museum theatre and the promotion of performing arts in the interpretation of cultural heritage. She holds a PhD on museum theatre, and has conducted postdoctoral research on the concept of dialogue in museums. She has designed and performed museum theatre performances, and has taught modules on museum theory, museum learning and museum theatre at several universities.

Stewart Ziff is a new media theorist, practitioner and educator. He is a Game developer and Founding member of the media arts collective Personal Cinema. He has held professional appointments in academia and industry, as an Associate Professor of New and Emerging Media at Georgia State University, as graduate faculty at Parsons School of Design (The New School) and the School of Visual Arts, New York, as Systems Architect for the new Hayden Planetarium (American Museum of Natural History) and as technical Director at the DTV R&D lab at MTV.

Dunia Prince Zongwe is an Associate Professor at the School of Law, Alliance University, India; and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Walter Sisulu University, South Africa. As an author, an academic, and a consultant, Dunia specialises in human rights, development and international law, focusing on Africa and the Global South. He has published four books and about 62 research outputs, consulted for many organisations, presented lectures at more than 70 conferences and received several merit awards. He earned his doctorate in law at Cornell University.